Speaking of teaching .. : : inclinations, inspirations, and innerworkings / / Avraham Cohen ... [et al.].

• Author: Cohen, Avraham.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (129 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Teaching is a richly multifaceted endeavor. It isn’t always easy to know just where we should focus our thinking and our dialogue. In Speaking of Teaching, six educators talk about their inner selves. They bring the inside out for their own self-exploration. And they bring the inside out for us to view and learn from. They also question the boundaries between the inner and the outer and whether existence can be dichotomized in this way. Gary Poole, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 3M Teaching Fellow. The authors of this collection explore the many ways to remain present in the midst of the trifling but perpetual swirl of events, thoughts, distractions, and how they, as they are at, what T. S. Eliot called, the still point of the turning world, find profound meaning in their work as educators. A deeply moving collection that allowed me too, while reading it, to rediscover that still point without which there would be no dance, and there is only the dance. Gerda Wever, PhD, editor and publisher, The Write Room Press.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Invitation to the Inner World of Educators / Avraham Cohen -- Foreword / Gary Poole -- Becoming a Daoist Educator / Avraham Cohen -- The Artistry of Teaching / Marion Porath -- Attending to the World Differently / Anthony Clarke -- Education for Enlightenment / Heesoon Bai -- Poetic Inquiry / Carl Leggoeggo -- Living Inquiry / Karen Meyer -- Having Spoken of Teaching / Avraham Cohen -- About the Authors of Speaking of Teaching.